Sr Staff Software Engineer

PayPal PayPal · Fintech · San Jose, CA +2 · Software Engineering

Senior Staff Software Engineer at PayPal, focusing on engineering roles within the fintech domain. The role involves making technical decisions affecting multiple teams, establishing conventions, managing resources, and partnering with product management to ideate solutions. The position emphasizes technical leadership, communication with non-technical audiences, and spreading knowledge within the engineering team. The role is not directly AI/ML focused but operates within a company that leverages technology for global commerce.

What you'd actually do

  1. Makes technical decisions affecting multiple teams, crossing organizational boundaries
  2. Establishes conventions & processes to be followed by other employees
  3. Actions determine the utilization of company resources (people, money, assets) and affect the effectiveness of the company
  4. Handles multiple, multi-team initiatives simultaneously, using judgement to prioritize among more issues than can be handled individually.
  5. Understands evolving industry capabilities & practices and can judiciously apply up--to-date information for optimal results

Skills

Required

  • Technical decision making
  • Process establishment
  • Resource management
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Industry capability assessment
  • Technical communication

Nice to have

  • Mentoring
  • Product partnership

What the JD emphasized

  • 8+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.